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au regard des tendances sécuritaires qui traversent les démocraties occidentales, il y a fort à parier que les jurés seraient plus sévères qu’escompté avec celles et ceux présentés (par les procureurs, les médias, les policiers, certains politiques) comme des « violents », des « casseurs », des « extrémistes » ou des membres des « ultras » (gauche,
... See moreVanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)
The cases of two scholars, Rebecca Tuvel and Bruce Gilley, immediately come to mind. Tuvel wrote a paper for the feminist philosophy giant Hypatia, exploring parallels between transracial and transgender identities and advocating transracial identity statuses. However, for Theory, race and gender are profoundly different. To claim transgender statu
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.
Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society
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Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
Since 1980, when the victims’ rights movement took off, higher-education spending in California has decreased by 13 percent, while investment in prisons has grown 436 percent; the state now spends far more money on prisons than it does on colleges and universities.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
From this point of view, Rodney King’s protective reflexes, the disorderly movements by which he struggled to stay alive (he flaps his arms, staggers, tries to get up, stands on his knees) were described as being under his “total control” and as evidence of “dangerous intent,” as if violence were the sole voluntary action possible for a Black body,
... See moreElsa Dorlin • Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence
Finally, before moving on, we would like to stress one very basic point about the importance of good ethics and honesty. We can go back to Marc Andreessen, who offers one of the best and least contingent good pieces of hiring advice you can find: Ethics are hard to test for. But watch for any whiff of less than stellar ethics in any candidate’s bac
... See moreDaniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
(Spousal rape was not criminalized in Virginia until 2002, and the state senator Richard Black is still fighting to decriminalize it.) A Times
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
